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Community Guidelines
Welcome to the Wayfarer Community (aka the Wayforum)! We’ve created this space for anyone active in or interested in Niantic Wayfarer and are looking to connect with one another to discuss various aspects of the Wayfarer experience, from nominations and reviews to appeals and support. We encourage you to be active in your…
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Bonus Resets leftover from India Wayfarer Challenge
Hey folks, If you are still in need of a Bonus location reset from the India Wayfarer Challenge, please leave a comment here. Please note that we won't be resetting Bonus locations for the Russia Challenge as we've temporarily relaxed the limitation on Hometown locations so people can make this change themselves.
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My Wayspot nomination was accepted, but does not appear in my game(s). Where did it go?
Hello Explorer, Thank you for your contribution! Getting a Wayspot nomination accepted is a great accomplishment, you should be proud. Your accepted nomination has been added to Niantic map and helps keep it fresh and engaging for all users around the world. While your accepted nomination is guaranteed to show up in our…
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Brazil Wayfarer Challenge - Start Exploring!
Hello Explorers, We are super excited to ship the Brazil Wayfarer Challenge! Starting today, you’ll be able to explore new places, find great places to socialize, and check out exciting places to exercise. If you have your Home and/or your Bonus Location already set to anywhere in Brazil, or your last played location is in…
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2021 Dec. AMA - Response Discussion
Hello Explorers, 2021 December AMA responses are here!!!!!! Thank you all for participating and for asking all of your questions. We selected 15 of the top voted questions and added an additional one as a little something for the end of the year. The responses you see below have been mainly organized in most-voted order…
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Bug squashing
Hi everyone, Just catching up on a few things here and wanted to share an update before the work week begins. [FIXED] Upload later bug swapping your main and supporting photos We pushed the fix on Friday afternoon. Please reset the Pokémon GO app at your earliest convenience. Note that both your main and supporting images…
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Update from the Wayfarer cabin!
Hallo allemal! Thanks for your patience in waiting to hear from us on where we're at with our roadmap and plans. Some of us actually took a slightly longer winter break this year (well, I did) and had a ton of catching up to do in January. 2021 has been personally challenging for me during this pandemic and so I decided to…
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Upcoming Wayfarer features and updates
Hello Explorers! We have a busy week ahead, and I wanted to make sure you were all in the know. ... On Wed Dec 8th, we’ll be shipping our last release of the year (Wayfarer 4.4) which will include: Updates to the “What is it Question” (aka category validation) Ability to appeal a rejected nomination through Wayfarer…
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2021 Playback and Roadmap Update
Hi Fam! Wow, where did the time go? Thank you all for another great year of community mapping! We’ve had an amazing year of awesome updates, new features, and team changes. I wanted to share some end of year global highlights from 2021: Your contributions 138K new Explorers joined the community 1.95M Wayspots approved (out…
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December AMA
Hello Explorers, It’s that time again. Our December AMA will start on December 8, 2021 (TODAY)! Similar to our Sept. AMA, this is the time for you to ask your most pressing questions about Wayfarer and vote on other questions you want answered. Once voting is done, 15 questions will be selected and sent to our team for…
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Hometown Location Change
Could you please update my hometown location. I am getting requests in a foreign language that I don’t understand and I believe it’s effecting my score as I cannot skip them due to the restriction on number of skips you can do. Thank you
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Having g to close and re open games (pogo and ingress) to do more than 1 submission
As above, I do a submission on either game, works fine, but then when I go to do another submission the map just won't load and then crashes out of the submission.
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Exclusive New Pokémon GO Feature Comes to Explorers - Routes Creation - Discussion
Hello Explorers, We have some exciting news that is nothing like what you have seen before in the Wayfarer Community. As we continue to find ways to highlight our community across Niantic, sharing how amazing your contributions are, we wanted to include a select number of you in a very exclusive feature launching in…
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Inaccessible Portal - Commando
Title of the Wayspot: Commando Location: 50.66, -3.43 City: Lympstone Country: England Screenshot of the Rejection Email: Attached Photos to support your claim: Attached Additional information: This portal is deep inside a military training facility. There are armed guards outside and a 10ft barbed wire fence. It is…
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Removed War Memorial
Title of the Wayspot: United Spanish War Veterans 1898 - 1902 Location: 40.413577,-86.871135 City: Lafayette, Indiana Country: United States of America Screenshot of the Rejection Email: Photos to support your claim: [Attach photo] Additional information: It's clearly gone and this can be easily seen by the satellite view…
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Unknow Reason Removed portals appeals
Title of the "4" Wayspots: 不給糖就搗蛋萬聖節彩繪圖 桃鈴音音海豹新衣裝 星街彗星新衣裝彩繪圖 噶嗚 ˙古拉新衣裝彩繪圖 Location: [Lat/Long] 23.381301, 120.178588 City: Chiayi Country: Taiwan Screenshot of the Rejection Email: Photos to support your claim: Youtube Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dNqn295oeQ Additional information: 3/2/2024 One player…
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My INGRESS WAYSPOT has been accepted but not present in the game
I received Portal nomination in the wayfarer the status also accepted ,but the portal is not present both in intel or at the INGRESS. This will cause me to feel confused and re-apply to be marked duplicate. what should i do? 骏马 22.993503, 113.741287 大球小球 22.993570, 113.740989 动漫城喷泉 22.993835, 113.740928
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1669 UNESCO Synagogue in pedestrian zone refused
Hi everyone! First time writing here but I gotta admit I'm a bit upset, angry even. Two weeks ago we visited my birth town, Trebic, which is also knows for having UNESCO sites, a roman-gothic basilica and an old jewish town with two synagogues from 17th century. We were looking forward to collecting few epic postcards to…
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Emily edits
Is there any info on why Emily may either instantly reject or instantly accept a photo or text edit? I've had both a text edit instantly rejected and a photo edit instantly accepted.
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I don’t understand why this is getting rejected
I originally posted this was stop once and realized it had the word PokéStop in it so I created a new one without the word and with a better description and they still rejected it and have failed to give me a reason both times. I don’t think Wayfare is accurate, considering that there is another business that has the same…